Ken Harty

I’m not sure where I was or what I was doing at the time, but I do remember having a very clear thought go through my mind — we are

As president-elect Trump prepares to take office in January, he has been making plans and selecting cabinet members at a fast pace. One of the plans he has is to create the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). According to govexec.com, it sounds like a federal agency, but its job is to get rid of them. It is important to note that DOGE will not operate as a federal executive department. However, it will serve as an advisory body aiming to streamline the U.S. government and slash inefficiency. Heading up the efforts are Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy.

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This time of year it's smart to check your smoke detectors to make sure they are in working order. When extreme cold temperatures hit our homes, furnaces and fireplaces run non-stop to keep up with the demand for heat.

This is the time of the year to check your smoke detectors to make sure they are in working order. When extreme cold temperatures hit our homes, furnaces and fireplaces are running non-stop to keep up with the demand for heat.

Because it is the Christmas holiday weekend, I am writing this light-hearted column about interesting facts and information that I sometimes come across, which I will now take upon myself to share with the faithful readers of the Daily Leader in hopes of enlightening and expanding the boundaries of everyday life.

With another year gone comes the hopes and dreams of a better year to come. It seems that the older I get, the faster the time goes by. They say that time flies when you're having fun — so I must be having fun.

I'm sure most people have heard of fantasy football, and many of you reading this column enjoy playing it too. I play fantasy football and enjoy it immensely. If you

As you are reading this column there is no doubt you have noticed our format change to a news-magazine. This is a very exciting development in the sense that we have not changed our format for over a 151 years. Yes, you read that correctly. For the last 151 years the Daily Journal has been in a broadsheet format — it changes today.

Every year we see our digital subscriptions to The Daily Leader increase. The result: reaching more readers now than we ever have. We have many readers going directly to our website, tapping our Daily Leader news app, opening stories featured in our e-newsletters, or clicking on articles we post on social media.